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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






2. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






3. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






4. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






5. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






6. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






7. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






8. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






9. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






10. The selection of words in a literary work.






11. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






12. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






13. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






14. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






15. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






16. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






17. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






18. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






19. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






20. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






21. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






22. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






23. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






24. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






25. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






26. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






27. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






28. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






29. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






30. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






31. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






32. A three-line stanza.






33. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






34. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






35. A four line stanza in a poem.






36. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






37. A short saying with a moral.






38. The main character of a literary work.






39. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






40. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






41. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






42. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






43. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






44. Broken down acts.






45. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






46. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






47. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






48. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






49. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






50. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.